THE REV JOHN ROWAN, espoused Margaret Stewart, of County Down, and had issue, his seventh son,

THE REV ROBERT ROWAN, of Mullans, County Antrim, Chancellor of the diocese of Connor, who married Letitia, daughter and sole heir of John Stewart, of Garry (by his wife, a daughter and co-heir of Redmond, of Blaris, County Down) and had an eldest son and heir,

JOHN ROWAN (1733-), of Mullans and Garry, High Sheriff of County Antrim, 1755, who wedded, in 1753, Rose, daughter of Captain Charles Stewart, of Lisburn, County Antrim.

The eldest son and heir,

ROBERT ROWAN (1754-1832), of Mullans, Garry, and Belleisle, County Antrim, espoused, in 1777, Eliza, daughter of Hill Wilson, of Purdysburn, County Down, and had issue,

JOHN ROWAN JP DL (1778-1855), of Garry and Ahoghill, High Sheriff of County Antrim, 1814, Major, Antrim Militia, who wedded firstly, in 1809, Eliza Honoria, eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Macmanus, of Mount Davys, County Antrim, High Sheriff, 1782, by Hester Henrietta, his wife, second daughter of Mark Kerr O'Neill, of Flowerfield, County Londonderry (cadet of O'NEILL of Shane's Castle), and had issue,

ROBERT WILLSON (Rev), of Mount Davys.

He espoused secondly, in 1823, Dorothea Shaw Ogilvie, widow of James Blair, of Merville, County Antrim.

Mr Rowan was succeeded by his son,

THE REV ROBERT WILLSON ROWAN JP (1810-86), of Mount Davys, County Antrim, who married, in 1834, Anna, second daughter of Joshua Minnitt, of Anabeg, County Tipperary, and had issue,

The Macmanus sept, an ancient Irish family, was formerly possessed of extensive property in counties Antrim, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and in the town of Carrickfergus, descended from Magnus O'Conor, 48th King of Connaught, and 181st elected monarch of Ireland.

A branch of this sept settled in County Antrim, of which

BRYAN MACMANUS, of Ballybeg, married, in 1662, Esme Macnaghten, of Beardiville, County Antrim, and had issue,

ALEXANDER MACMANUS, of Carndonaghy, who wedded, in 1708, Honoria, daughter of McGuinness, of Cabra, County Down, and had issue,

ALEXANDER MACMANUS, High Sheriff of County Antrim, 1782, who espoused Hester Henrietta, daughter of Mark Kerr O'Neill, of Flowerfield, and had a daughter,

ELIZA HONORIA O'NEILL, who married, in 1809, John Rowan, of Garry and Ahoghill (see above).

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I have been unable, so far, to discover any information relating to the Rowan family home, Mount Davys, near Cullybackey, County Antrim.First published in June, 2015.

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